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Illegal wildlife trading threatens all creatures great and small

May 28, 2020
Insight
Besides being a major threat to biodiversity, the wildlife trade can be a cause of global public health issues and hundreds of billions of dollars of economic damage around the...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Marine Biology, Zoology
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DIY reagents for COVID-19 testing

May 19, 2020
News
Researchers in Warwick Medical School at the University of Warwick have developed a way to create more crucial reagents for use in COVID-19 tests that could also provide enhancements to...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Covid-19, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical
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Will our climate bounce back as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown?

May 19, 2020
News
Stanford research study envisions energy and environment landscape after COVID-19, pinpointing reduced demand hotspots and estimating impact on annual emissions. Join the webinar on 21 May: ‘Post-Pandemic: Building Back Resiliently’
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Covid-19, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Oceanography
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Return to work safely: Managing transmission in transport hubs

May 17, 2020
News
Aerosol specialists – ANCON Medical – discuss innovation that could detect COVID-19 in high traffic environments such as transport hubs to enable improved management to prevent transmission and slow the...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Atmospheric Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Engineering, Environment, Health, Health & Safety, Immunology, Medical/Health
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Return to work safely: Environmental surface swabbing

May 17, 2020
News
In light of the UK government’s request for employers to enable staff to safely return to work where possible, the imperative for employers to implement upgraded health and safety monitoring...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Environmental, Health, Health & Safety, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Policy
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Re-purposing familiar drugs to defend against COVID 19

May 14, 2020
Feature
Drugs with a successful track record against rare diseases occasionally show positive effects over unrelated conditions. So-called re-purposing has had its advocates in the pharmaceutical and biochemical sector for many...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Covid-19, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, In Depth, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical
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Covid-19 reveals misunderstanding of the lab sector

May 14, 2020
Insight
As Russ Swan settles in to a new normal of self-isolation, he'd like to believe politicians, he really would - but…
Life Sciences
Comment And Analysis, Covid-19
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Rothamsted turn to harvesting coronavirus data

May 12, 2020
News
A group of researchers based at Rothamsted Research, one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world, has responded to a request from the White House, Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Health/Diagnostics, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Why men are more vulnerable to Covid-19 than women

May 11, 2020
News
Evidence from a large study of several thousand patients shows that men have higher concentrations of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in their blood than women. Since ACE2 enables the coronavirus...
Life Sciences
Covid-19, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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AI to map impact of COVID-19 on the heart

May 11, 2020
News
A joint UK-US research team is applying a pioneering artificial intelligence system to map how the COVID-19 virus attacks the heart with such deadly impact. The collaboration aims to quantify...
Life Sciences
Biology, Biophysics, Covid-19, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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